Back in 1984, when I wrote NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, my goal
was to awaken conservatives and Republicans to the fact that the National
Education Association had become a radical, leftist political organization
using the Democratic Party to achieve its goals. For years, they had been
using their extensive local influence to elect liberals and leftists to school
boards, municipal governments, state legislatures, and the U.S. Congress.
Back in 1967, five years after the NEA had become a labor union, the NEA's
executive secretary, Sam Lambert, made it very clear that the NEA was determined
to become a powerful political machine rather than merely an organization
of teachers devoted to improving education. He declared:

NEA will become a political power second to no other special interest
group….NEA
will organize this profession from top to bottom into logical operational
units that can move swiftly and effectively and with power unmatched
by any other organized group in the nation.

And, indeed, his prediction became reality with the help of Uniserv, the
association's full-time, unionized, political cadre.

Without the support of the NEA, it is doubtful that Bill Clinton would have
been elected President in 1992 and re-elected for a second term. But they
had the terrible taste of defeat in 2000 when George W. Bush won over Al
Gore by just a few votes in Florida. They are now determined to never let
that happen again. And so, they are gearing up for 2004.

The NEA is planning to target 16 states where the Democrat nominee for the
Presidency has a good chance of upsetting George W. Bush. The NEA is also
planning to upset Republicans in 45 House races by recruiting candidates
who they believe can win. This was spelled out to the delegates at their
latest convention in New Orleans during the July 4th weekend.

Although about 30 percent of NEA members are Republicans, the delegates
at the convention were, for the most part, the most radically leftist leaders
of the organization. And they are pushing the leftist agenda, which includes
full-day pre-kindergarten, gay rights in curriculum development and teacher
hiring, comprehensive sexual health education, support for Title IX quota
policies, national socialized medicine, Multiculturalism, statehood for the
District of Columbia, an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, etc.

And they are still anti-homeschooling, anti-vouchers and tuition tax credits,
anti-English as the Official Language, pro-family planning otherwise known
as abortion, anti-school prayer including moments of silence, pro joining
the International Court of Justice. The NEA has always been a strong supporter
of the United Nations and world government. It was instrumental in creating
UNESCO as a future "World Board of Education." In 1946, Joy Elmer
Morgan, editor of the NEA Journal, wrote:

In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher
has many parts to play. He must begin with his own attitude and knowledge
and
purpose. He can do much to prepare the hearts and minds of children for
global understanding and cooperation….At the very top of all the
agencies which will assure the coming of world government must stand the
school, the
teacher, and the organized profession.

And while fifty-seven years later, world government is still to be achieved
in a conflict-ridden, discredited United Nations, the NEA is still betting
on its becoming reality. Schools downplay patriotism as politically incorrect,
nativist, and exclusionary.

But perhaps the most dangerous of the NEA's latest policies is that concerning
early childhood education. Their resolution on the subject reads:

The National Education Association supports early childhood education programs
in public schools for children from birth [you read correctly!] through age
eight. The Association also believes that early childhood education programs
should include a full continuum of services for parents/guardians, and children,
including child care, child development [including drugging with Ritalin
and other mind-altering drugs], developmentally appropriate and diversity-based
curricula [no doubt including the gay rights agenda], special education [as
a result of the deliberate dumbing down process], and appropriate bias-free
screening devices.

Naturally, all of this at taxpayer expense. The last thing any of us should
want is for those behaviorist educator-psychologists to get hold of America's
defenseless infants so that they can be brainwashed as early as possible
and turned into intellectual cripples before they can even speak their own
language.

That resolution alone should make us all aware of the brave new world being
planned by these malevolent utopians who call themselves educators. Neither
the Nazis nor Communists could have done better!

Nineteen years ago, it was obvious that the NEA would go from bad to worse.
Their membership has increased greatly by including cafeteria workers, janitors,
etc. And their budget for political mischief has grown enormously. Their
defeat in 2000 has made them redouble their efforts to regain control of
the two houses of Congress and the White House. Undoubtedly, the homeschool
movement put a crimp in the NEA's political power. Thus, conservatives must
do everything they can to make sure that the NEA monster is kept in its cage
in 2004.